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CROFT, ROBERT, brother of Sir James Croft (qv); b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 16) 1629 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS lxix, 224); a Col. in the Royalist army; of Yarpole, Herefs. ; m. ; buried 5 May 1683.

Croft, Stephen George, brother of Anthony Julian Croft (qv); b. 6 June 1933; adm. Sept. 1946 (G); left Dec. 1951; Trin. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1952, BA 1955, MA 1965; a theatre man. and writer for the theatre; staff of Playhouse Salisbury 1955-6, Theatre Royal Windsor 1957, New Shakespeare Liverpool 1958; man. Mermaid Theatre London 1959-61; adapted Emma and Wuthering Heights for the theatre; drama officer Arts Council 1964-70; man. Watford Palace Theatre 1971-2; tours man. Nat. Theatre 1973-5; d. 23 June 2016.

CROFT, SIR THOMAS ELMSLEY, BART., third but eldest surviving son of Sir Richard Croft, Bart., MD, and Margaret, dau. of Thomas Denman MD; b. 2 Sep 1798; adm. Lady Day 1811; left 1813; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 28 Apr 1814, half-pay 2 Mar 1820, retd. 29 Mar 1831; severely wounded at battle of Quatre Bras 16 Jun 1815; succ. father as 7th baronet 13 Feb 1818; FSA; m. 9 Sep 1824 Sophia Jane, only child of Richard Lateward-Lateward, Grove House, Perivale, Middlesex; d. 29 Oct 1835.

CROFT, WILLIAM; b. ; adm. 26 Jul 1774.

CROFTON-ATKINS, WILLIAM ARTHUR, son of Maj. -Gen. Richard Henry Crofton, Royal Artillery, and Emily Catherine Anne, younger dau. of William James Brown, Gravesend, Kent; b. 2 Dec 1844; adm. 14 Apr 1857; St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Oct 1862 (described in Foster as only son of William Arthur Crofton Atkins, Woolwich, Kent, presumably in error); Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards [check]; University Coll. Durham; BA and L. Th 1871; ordained deacon 1872, priest 1873 (both Winchester); Curate, St. Clement’s, Bournemouth 1872-4; of Combe Bank, Kent, and St. Leonard’s, Sussex; m. 14 Jun 1866 Charlotte Anne Rosalie, eldest dau. of Rev. Edward Norman Coles, Rector of Battlesden with Pottesgrove, Beds.; d. 17 Jan 1928.

CROFTS, DANIEL, brother of John Crofts (adm. 1743, qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1749/50 (Gibson's); in school list 1754; apprenticed to Charles Hornby, Sworn Attorney, Pipe Office, 26 Mar 1756; adm. solicitor 13 Feb 1765; of the Pipe Office, London, as one of the Board End clerks 1772-6 and as a Sworn Attorney from 1776; m. 1 Jul 1768 Miss Hunt, Lincoln’s Inn Fields; d. 18 Sep 1785.

CROFTS, JOHN, eldest son of John Crofts, Lincoln’s Inn, and Sompting Abbots, Sussex, solicitor, and Ann, dau. of Rev. Daniel De La Pla, Thornhagh, Northants.; bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 27 Jul 1732 (IGI); adm. (aged 10) Apr 1743 (Stephens'); left 1749; m. 19 Jun 1766 Frances, dau. of James Pinnock; d. 20 Oct 1812, aged 80.

CROFTS, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1751; in school list 1754.